Paris, France – A court has convicted a gang leader of the brutal 2006 killing of a young man prosecutors say was targeted because he was Jewish.
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Youssouf Fofana, 28, who was sentenced to life in prison, was one of 27 people on trial in the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, who was 23 years old.
Halimi was found naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris on Feb. 13, 2006. He died on the way to the hospital after being held captive for more than three weeks.
Fofana’s sentence means he will have no possibility of parole for 22 years.
As the verdict was announced, Fofana mimicked applause.
His main accomplices were given sentenced of 15 to 18 years.
This story makes me honestly sick and btw if I ever met this guy face to face…….
Parole after 22 years, accomplices 18 years??? Oy, there is no din emes in this world. They will get what they deserve after olam hazeh.
This murderer and torturer gets parole after 22 years and Madof gets 150 years. Go figure…
this is a sad story. may people or gd take revenge on this people for doing wat they did.
this is the time to cry every day for the beis hamikdash
how many years can we suffer like this,this story happended in 2006 paris(not 1946 not in the middle east)
Gut Voch– let us not forget that the French are the scum Anti-semites of the earth and they will soon pay the price of the millions of Arabs in their country. Scondly, Jewish blood has always been cheap!!! The fact of the “closed trial” in itself was a mockery like the Dreyfus Affair another great sign of French scummetry.
The trial sentences meted out in comparison to the brutality of the crime is indicative of French indifference. May the entire anti semitic French goyish nation pay the deserved price for their actions and indifference.
Hashem Yikom Domo!!
why is he still being referred to as a “suspect?”